“However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.”

He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.

Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin.

The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.’

I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.

We offend God because we do not know His greatness.

Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

The poor should live by alms.

I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it’s silly to talk about him not existing.

Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you’re a nun. Jesus can’t dump nuns.

Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

Do not be lazy. Run each day’s race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall.

In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don’t trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.

And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.

You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.